Whatever is proposed, it is much easier to find reasons for rejecting than embracing.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Above all things -- read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job- not a calling.

I'm a very romantic person.

I'd just been on a trip to Minnesota, where I can only kindly describe most of the people I saw as little houses.

Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal

Be proud to be a decent American rather than a wanker whipping up fear.

At first glance a photograph can inform us. At second glance it can reach us.

If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.

The thing that always strikes me is how much power one person has. Everybody has so much power to help and to change if they just exercise it and get after it.